helmets

This Helmet’s Retractable Sunglasses Are Like A Windshield For Your Bike

The last thing you want to have to deal with when riding your bike, particularly in busy traffic, is your sunglasses falling off. So to ensure they stay on your face no matter how rough the terrain is, the Helm from Dux features a retractable pair of sunglasses that will never go missing.


The Crazy High-Concept Inflatable Bike Helmet Is Finally Buyable

If you’re sick of your bike helmet and you’d rather have something that looks like a giant baseball mitt to protect your cranium, you’re in luck. After seven whole years of development, the Hövdin invisible helmet is finally available for purchase.


The Yellow Sticker That Detects Emergencies And Alerts Your Contacts

ICEdot (In Case of Emergency) is expanding on ways to make life easier for people injured or involved in accidents. It has worked with a company called SenseTech to create a tiny helmet sensor that knows when you’ve been in an accident, how severe it was, and automatically trigger your phone to call for help.


Foldable Bike Helmet Stretches To Fit Your Oddly Shaped Head

Helmets are a crucial piece of safety equipment, but unless they fit just right, they can get uncomfortable. This new helmet by Carrera aims to solve that problem by stretching laterally to fit your fat (or not-so-fat) head.


12 Helmets From The Dark Ages Of Gridiron

Today’s high tech football kit may be magnitudes more protective than the bits of moulded cow skin you see here but they’re not nearly as intimidating. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 early examples of these bad arse cranial caretakers.


The LumaHelm Is A Bike Helmet That Acts Like Turn Signals

Riding a bike? Great! Riding a bike at night? Possibly dangerous. And even though dressing yourself in bright colours while wrapping 3M and reflective gear around your body is effective, illuminating your noggin is something bike riders don’t do enough. Fortunately, the LumaHelm is set to fix that.


RMIT Researcher Builds His Own Psychedelic, Direction-Indicating Bicycle Helmet

Even for the most careful and law-abiding of cyclists, riding can be a terrifying activity. And that’s during the day — at night, multiple the danger a hundred times over, if not more. You can combat the risk by slapping all manner of blinking lights and reflective vests on your person but, at the end of the day, you still need to stick your hand out to indicator or otherwise signal motorists.


Ridiculous Apocalypse-Proof Shopping Bag Helmet Could Save Your Life

When you look at this weird shopping bag helmet reported by Digital Info you’re probably thinking, “There’s no way in hell I’m ever putting that thing on my head.” If you’re lucky, you’ll never have to. But when it goes down, you’ll be lucky to have one.


Sustainable Wood And Cork Helmet Is As Safe As Your Plastic And Foam One

The general rise of artisanal wares over the past few years hasn’t been particularly shocking. But to see that trend spill over into safety products — almost exclusively the domain of science, technology and research — is a bit strange. Especially when it’s a bike helmet meant to protect your brain.


Google Glasses Patents Hint At Helmets To Match Specs

It looks like Google has been making moves to lock down the intellectual property behind Project Glass. The company has been granted three patents that could give some clues about the guts behind the augmented reality specs, aside from the teaser that dropped earlier in the month.


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